Victoria Pendleton Quotes
I've lost a lot more races than I've ever won... it's all part of the journey, really.
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Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
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I lost the ball in the moon.
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A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling.
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In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.
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I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.
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It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.
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In the 1880s, women were decades away from earning the right to vote. Few owned property - if they were even permitted to do so. In addition to childcare obligations, many toiled in work that was either underpaid or not paid at all. Essentially, the gears of progress for women were moving slowly in just about every arena of life.
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Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.
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I've lost a lot more races than I've ever won... it's all part of the journey, really.
